Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 2 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 3 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 4 | It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion . |
| 5 | It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut . |
| 6 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 7 | It flashed from the woodwork and the walls ; it smote him with an awful , total power , as if generated by a vast mill . |